Charlotte Leib

*pursuing

Yeah, agreed. He looks so mortified while being examined…

Kudos to the @acls1919.bsky.social @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social for pursuit this lawsuit against DOGE

The video in this thread is worth watching til the end for a very blatant expose of DOGE’s anti-feminist and racist politics

Wonderful vertical aspect and textures here.

Congratulations everyone, we made it through February…barely, and now that we’re finally in March, it’s time for one of my favorite nocturnal signs of spring; listening for the nasal “peent” call and twittering displays of the American woodcock!

#peent #birds #birdphotography #wilflife

shadowy creeks of saltmarsh from where a little egret startles takes wing until starsmall curlew paces & stares * down to estuary forgotten post swings shadow to turn of tide & fading human footprints overlaid by avian waxing moon firms faint imprint on afternoon

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997

Shorter winters and warmer temps means “reduced water supply, decreased summer crop yields and worsening allergy seasons . . . substantial changes to ecosystems, the health of our natural community and our water resources,” and “challenges for local economies.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more!

#envhist

Call for Contributors: Cities at Play We at The Metropole are excited to issue a call for our next theme month: Cities at Play We welcome submissions about any aspect of play, recreation, or leisure in the urban environment. How have cities uniquely shaped the way their inhabitants play, and how has play in turn shaped the built environment, the social dynamics, and the politics of cities?

Call for Contributors: Cities at Play

We at The Metropole are excited to issue a call for our next theme month: Cities at Play We welcome submissions about any aspect of play, recreation, or leisure in the urban environment. How have cities uniquely shaped the way their inhabitants play, and how…

Prelude to a Revolution, Part Two - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library How maps, scarcity, and severe weather combined to shape the new American Republic, and a revolution we’re still waiting on

The second article in my "Prelude to a Revolution" series is out!

In it, I explore how the American and Industrial Revolutions in N.America emerged alongside shortages in a humble product: grass

#envhist #history @revolution250.bsky.social @bplmaps.bsky.social
www.leventhalmap.org/articles/pre...

Prelude to a Revolution, Part Two - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library How maps, scarcity, and severe weather combined to shape the new American Republic, and a revolution we’re still waiting on

The second article in my "Prelude to a Revolution" series is out!

In it, I explore how the American and Industrial Revolutions in N.America emerged alongside shortages in a humble product: grass

#envhist #history @revolution250.bsky.social @bplmaps.bsky.social
www.leventhalmap.org/articles/pre...

Arvo Pärt : Silentium YouTube video by Sylvain Moore

exquisite #music by Arvo Pärt

Silentium
youtu.be/-GT-5rLBlyk?...

Rainy evening in Paris
Joseph Zbukvic

Figure skating is greatly improved by the involvement of Donna Summer! Go Alysa!

Second that! I was just re-listening to Donna Summer while cooking dinner, after watching her outstanding performance!

A Deadly Medieval Path in England Claims a Modern Victim: An Amazon Van

Nature still stops the pulse of capital, sometimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

A little bit of #Revolutionary history & #urbanhistory: as Patriots fled west from New York City, this was the moment when #NewJersey 's Manhattan-adjacent towns first began to gain a kind of suburban-urban density that would never from that point stop accreting #Jersey #AmericanRevolution #history

Also, as a sidenote: people seem happier today outside, in the library and on the street. Thanks #badbunny for giving us a show we didn't know we needed! The news has really gotten me down lately, as I'm sure it has many of you. I'm going to be watching the Olympics and this halftime show as solace.

Really looking forwd to teaching the #SuperBowl #BadBunny halftime show in dialogue w/ American energy history & colonialism in the future. #envhist #energy #colonialism #sugarcane #electricpower

Singer Bad Bunny dressed in a cream colored outfit standing on a cream colored pickup truck surrounded by dancers in tan outfits against a backdrop of sugar cane.

A tan book cover that says THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE in green letters and SUGAR, MASTERY, AND PLEASURE IN THE ANGLO CARIBBEAN KIM F. HALL in brown letters

My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history

When ye olde Julian and Gregorian calendars add hours to verifying footnotes and cross-checking sources to set the dates straight, I'm grateful to have been a distance swimmer...early American history is an endurance sport! #amwriting #earlyAmhist #vastearlyAmerica

the bushes were people 😂

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Brick acting as wall, floor and somewhere to sit in Shiraz, Iran

By Mahsa Saeidi

Bad Bunny strides with a Puerto Rican flag beneath power poles and utility workers symbolizing the electricity crisis in Puerto Rico, made exponentially worse by Hurricane Maria striking the island in 2017.

And so, with Bad Bunny and the Puerto Rican electricity crisis, the climate disaster finally made it into the Super Bowl.

This is the kind of image that might show up in a history timeline or even a textbook someday.

Social media post by the muppet Elmo stating "That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny."

100% wyth Elmo on thys

Whenever somebody says “So you do environmental history? That must be a new niche subfield or something.”

I tell them about this guy.

Gift article. This is a great story about a neglected artistic legacy of the New Deal, the public art found in post offices across the US. Sadly, it’s also testament to the skill of a variety of WaPo employees who were just laid off.

For reference, his name comes up more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potter's name does in the Harry Potter novels.